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That means seeking His help to live truthfully from now on. Come on, when was the last time you lied to someone and said you loved their haircut? Your boyfriend has no idea what is going on.

Why not begin today to model your life after the example of God the Father and Jesus Christ—a truth-teller! Truthfulness is a value that we should strive to make a part of our character.

He brings you to a Thai restaurant, but you hate Thai food. I say what I mean, and I say it all. We have Donald Trump. When you see each other, you tell her she looks fantastic.

Some MPs are perfectly decent, we said. And the real you is frustrated and has no voice.

Some of the media is hampered and flummoxed by some outdated notions of impartiality. The apostle Paul stated that an essential trait of the Creator God is that He always tells the truth—He cannot lie Titus 1: Yes, I said it.

Then there are the endless denials, followed by so-whatery, by those who financed the leave campaign. We have Steve Bannon screaming at radio producers in London as he defends Tommy Robinson not even his actual name. As small children, we learn that other people have different thoughts or feelings or desires to our own.

They are not true! Often these lies are completely false, or they just have a dose of fabrication in them to throw people off the truth. Others lie in a vain attempt to lessen the hurt others may receive from hearing the truth.

Even in stressful, difficult situations, truth should shine through us.

Paul stated that we should wrap ourselves in truth. That is the only way to make a big difference on the planet and to have deep relationships. Surely that went out of the window when Salman Rushdie was threatened with death for writing a book.

Not in a rude, obnoxious or unfeeling manner, but wisely speaking truth for the good of all. He is a God of truth, and He expects us to be truthful in imitation of Him and for the benefit of each other.

Instead, everyone feels like they are going a bit mad.

Determine to make being a truth-teller your future. Why do people lie? You come back from your business trip and life goes on, right? All have some form of stretching, hiding, ignoring or avoiding the truth. Any time we lie and our intent is to deceive another, we are wandering away from truth and into troubled waters.

Here are several different ways that we lie: Lying is no small casual matter to God!

Consistent truthfulness can erase the stain of lies and deception from our character and reputation. Truth decay What has happened to telling the truth?

Most of us want to be perceived as a good person, so instead of telling the truth to people we tell nice white lies to make them feel good, or rather, not feel bad.

It was just a drunken make-out session in another state.

A lot of the current news is literally unbelievable. Can we build a just society if we hear the truth only 50 percent of the time?Nearly any adult will tell you that lying is wrong. But when it comes to avoiding trouble, saving face in front of the boss, or sparing someone’s feelings, many people find themselves doing it anyway.

In fact, more than 80 percent of women admit to occasionally telling what they consider harmless. Lying vs. Telling the Truth by Dave Myers People come up with a lot of reasons to lie, but there are even stronger reasons to tell the truth—always.

” “Some say,” Viorst is asking questions, “that truth will come out and thus they might as well tell the truth. Some say they can’t regain the trust that lies lose. Some say that even though the truth may never be revealed, our lies pervert and damage our relationships.

It is a lie that originated in response from the original lie and is the cause of entanglement of a lie. You can say that you lied about your friend stealing a pack of gum to make him look bad and the you lie about saying that he stole a video game too.

You are not speaking the truth.

Both is a lie. Truth is truth and a lie is a lie, a fib is a fib, cross my heart and hope to die. Just ask Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton as well, ‘tis better to tell it like it is than trying to unring a bell.

But as psychologists delve deeper into the details of deception, they're finding that lying is a surprisingly common and complex phenomenon. For starters, the work by Bella DePaulo, Ph.D., a psychologist at the University of Virginia, confirms Nietzche's assertion that the lie is a condition of life.